Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical and generative linguistics. It was established in 1983 and originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Since 2004 the journal is published by Springer Science+Business Media. Since 2024, the editor-in-chief has been Daniel Harbour.
The journal carries a "Topic-Comment" column, in which a contributor presents a personal, sometimes controversial, opinion on some aspect of the field.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 1.1.